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Overall, 48% of Americans say they have “a great deal” of confidence in the scientific community.

Humans do a poor job of evaluating climate risk and taking preventative care to avoid the worst, and we are literally paying the price.

An ongoing opinion survey shows that climate change concerns are resonating with the public. According to the latest results, 33 percent of Americans are “alarmed” by global warming, no longer able to ignore increasing wildfires, floods, hurricanes and other climate disasters.

Instead of acting decisively to slash emissions, switch to renewable energy and phase out fossil fuel production, our government is still stuck in the mud, even as U.S. greenhouse gas emissions roar back after a pandemic-induced lull.

New results from a long-running public opinion survey show that about 1 in 3 Americans is now “alarmed” by global warming. Is it any wonder, given the horrific onslaught of fires, floods, heat waves and other climate disasters we’ve experienced in the last year alone? The share of the U.S. adult population alarmed by global warming nearly doubled over the last five years from 18 percent to an all-time high of 33 percent, with about half of that increase occurring between December 2020 and September 2021, researchers with Yale University and George Mason University reported last week as p...